Soaring Skills For Low Airtime Paraglider Pilots

Ridge soaring helps you to build airtime without the turbulence and hit-and-miss altitude of thermic flying. But after you've gone up and down the ridge twenty times, what else can you do? Are there some things you could be exploring to improve your skills faster?

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UPM GAL147:1 Outside Wind Instrumental (Lebidois)

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[Asayah-sm]

Paragliding is something I dare myself to do within my Life Time.. but at the same time I still have doubts that I'll never reach the cloud..!! But I admire the skills n techniques involved here.!!! Wow!!
By the way we in the island r water people not sky people.

[PPGFlyr]

I absolutely love this video! Very informative. Thanks for posting.

[degklump]

Nice videos! Just a remark, the colors in text and background make it very hard to read

[davidcrooks]

This may seem like a stupid ? Is not your compass affected by it’s proximity to the karabiner?